The 12 Days of Agile Principles! Principle #1

Inspired by The 12 Days of Christmas we’re exploring the principles behind the Agile Manifesto. Originally defined in 2001, The Principles of the Agile Manifesto are still highly relevant to Agile approaches today. So like an advent calendar of Agility, we're unwrapping one principle each day for the 12 working days - Monday to Friday, leading up to Xmas. By the time we conclude we should all be in the festive spirit!

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Today we kick off with…

PRINCIPLE #1

Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early & continuous delivery of valuable software

This is the 'why' behind many of our approaches, such as using short Iterations of work and demonstrating the results at the end of the iteration. Also chopping scope into user stories that are independent and represent some Value to the customer and prioritising those stories according to value also facilitates early delivery. 

We like to deliver early and continuously, rather than late and only once.  We’ve learned that evolving towards great products that customers love and that generate value for businesses is much more successful than building towards one epic large thing that you hope will satisfy the customer.  We’ve learned that approach is far too risky and expensive. 

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We hope you enjoyed Principle #1, maybe you’d like to share these 12 Days of Agile Principles in your relevant workplace channels or join in the conversation with us here on twitter @TheRebootCo. Or you may be inspired to start your own 12 days of Christmas posts about the Agile principles at your place, we’d love to hear about it! 

Continue on to Principle #2!  

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